Comments on: RIAA sued under gang laws

A woman who the record label group accuses of copyright infringement fires back, saying labels are breaking racketeering laws.

[mtlorenz]

What's The Fuss!

It's amazing the RIAA needs to sue people for such an inferior products. A MP3 is not a close second to a 16 or 24 bit audio recording at 44.1 Kor 96K and often the music itself is awful. It's amazing people download them for $.99.

[mtlorenz]

What's The Fuss!

It's amazing the RIAA needs to sue people for such inferior products. A MP3 is not a close second to a 16 or 24 bit audio recording at 44.1 Kor 96K and often the music itself is awful. It's amazing people download them for $.99.

suit against RIAA

I recently received notice of a law suit against me because my teenage daughter was using Kazaa to download music. I agree with Ms. Scimeca and her attorney that this amounts to a scare tactic and extortion. i would like to know what I can do to fight back. I think the guilty party is Kazaa and they are not being sued at all. Go after the drug dealers, not the users!! I am going through a terrible family crisis at this time (47 year old ex husband/children's father suffered a stroke in May and is now in a nursing home) but the legal representative still wants me to send $3500-reduced from $4000-to settle the claim. I am frantic!!

[GrandpaN1947]

Just a diversion

This issue will soon go away when your traitor Republican and Democratic "leaders" impose their taxes on the Internet. Few will care to partake in file downloading when they are scrambling to get gas money to go to work. Give it time...

[ProtectingYourRights]

Damn Right

What the RIAA is doing IS extortion by definition. In simple terms "do this or this will happen" is extortion. The RIAA is offering these "deals" because they know their tactics would fall apart in court. First, using an ISP to prove identity is reasonable doubt in the first place. The IP address only proves what connection did the downloading, not what person did it. For all they know, someone was browsing on their neighbor's open-air wifi connection. Should the neighbor goto prison? NO! Unless the RIAA has a picture of you downloading a file, they can't prove beyond a reasonable doubt who did the downloading. And if they ask you directly "Did you download this", plead the 5th amendment in that you can not be held to incriminate yourself. Hell, countersue for deformation of character, wrongful accusations, wasting time, and lawyer's fees. You could easily take them for 5 million dollars per case.

[ProtectingYourRights]

What are you talking about?

I am an avid audiophile, and I can tell no difference between a 5 mb MP3 and a 50 mb WAV file. MP3's are distributed in 256k quality in 16bit at 48 khz. Learn what you're talking about before posting.